Maelle ricker biography of alberta
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Meet Your Canadian World Cup Champions in 2009-10
What a year. Canada’s winter athletes shone this past season. We all know what transpired at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games – 26 medals, 14 of them gold, a new world record. Let’s take a moment outside the Olympic spotlight and look at the Canadians who won World Cup titles this season. Their consistency over many months, at events all across the world, made them the best in the world.
Maëlle Ricker, snowboard
Canadians won’t soon forget the smile of Maelle Ricker, the first Canadian woman to win Olympic gold in Canada. Ricker has had an absolutely dominant season, and it has concluded with the Crystal Globe.
The native of West Vancouver won not only the overall ladies snowboard cross title, but had enough points to win the overall ladies snowboard title – beating competitors from all other disciplines. Ricker had six World Cup medals this season, including three gold. She finished with an even 5,000 points, 45
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12 Women Who Pioneered Snowsports In Canada
Research shows that, “women make 80% of the buying decisions in a family, regardless of their background.” And that, “if mom is convinced that skiing and snowboarding are good investments for her family then, chances are, the family will start skiing or snowboarding.”
The 12 women featured in this story were the ultimate pioneers who changed the face of snowsports in Canada, through their grit and determination, often in the face of sometimes overwhelming adversity, ultimately inspiring future generations to pick up the torch and follow in their tracks.
This story was researched and written by ski writer Dave Fonda, for the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame and Museum. NOTE: In winnowing our selection down to a dozen snowsports pioneers across nine different disciplines, we’ve had to leave out a great many worthy and deserving favourites. You can search all Canadian Ski Hall of Fame members here.
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Olympic and World Champion Maëlle Ricker Announces Official Retirement from Competitive Snowboarding
Vancouver, BC - It was time, she said, to move on. Surrounded by friends, teammates, coaches and support staff, Canadian Olympic and World mästare Maëlle Ricker bid a sad farewell today to the competitive sport she loves so much.
“Snowboarding has provided me with so many amazing memories,” she says. “I will never forget the progression that saw me strapping into my first snowboard wearing my father’s boots over mine just so I could fit into my bindings, then riding bottomless powder on Whistler with my brother Jorli, and finally competing on the biggest sporting scen on the planet in my own backyard during the Vancouver Olympics. Truly – it’s been a fantastic time.”
Indeed. And the Squamish resident’s competitive career has been ingenting short of exceptional. She entered her first snowboard cross race back in 1994. “